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Post by countrychick on Nov 6, 2005 23:48:02 GMT -5
You know that one certain song that takes you back to a certain time, place, moment. This is the song for me. I like it though!
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Post by Hervard on Nov 7, 2005 11:34:36 GMT -5
Yeah, I always associate this song with the first semester of my junior year in high school. I loved this song at first, then got tired of it because of gross overplay. But now, no stations tend to play it anymore.
This was one of those songs that was penalized year-end-chartwise, since it came out so late in the year and didn't gain enough points in either 1988 or 1989 to make R&R's Year End chart (though they didn't go all the way down to 100 back then like they do now. If they did, the song would have just barely made both charts).
It was, however, number one on Billboard's Top 100 of 1989, since they count all the points of a song on that one. It has been said that Shadoe Stevens didn't like the fact that this came out on top for 1989, since most of its chartlife was in 1988, or something like that.
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Post by Libra on Nov 7, 2005 12:15:33 GMT -5
It was, however, number one on Billboard's Top 100 of 1989, since they count all the points of a song on that one. It has been said that Shadoe Stevens didn't like the fact that this came out on top for 1989, since most of its chartlife was in 1988, or something like that. I don't either, because I don't like that year-end chart policy.
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Post by mst3k on Nov 7, 2005 12:30:28 GMT -5
This was one of those songs that was penalized year-end-chartwise, since it came out so late in the year and didn't gain enough points in either 1989 or 1990 to make R&R's Year End chart (though they didn't go all the way down to 100 back then like they do now. If they did, the song would have just barely made both charts). 1990, huh? I didn't hear the song that much by that time... ;)
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Post by Libra on Nov 7, 2005 12:36:29 GMT -5
1990, huh? I didn't hear the song that much by that time... ;) Oh, how did I not catch that? ![](http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/fun/s0244.gif)
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Post by MinusName on Nov 7, 2005 15:50:03 GMT -5
I really like this song, one of Chicago's best.
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Post by jimmy74747 on Nov 7, 2005 17:03:57 GMT -5
I loved the Chicago power-ballad era. This was one of the better songs by them at this time.
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Post by Hervard on Nov 7, 2005 16:37:07 GMT -5
It was, however, number one on Billboard's Top 100 of 1989, since they count all the points of a song on that one. It has been said that Shadoe Stevens didn't like the fact that this came out on top for 1989, since most of its chartlife was in 1988, or something like that. I don't either, because I don't like that year-end chart policy. Actually, I think it's pretty fair, since a song gets its entire chart life accounted for. The one that I didn't like is the one that ran from November 1 of the previous year through November 1 of the current year. For instance, on the Top 100 of 1982, so many songs appeared on that chart that were pretty much gone by the beginning of 1982. I do understand that they have to meet deadlines, so doing a chart that runs from January 1 through December 31 would be impossible, but setting the cutoff date for November 1? That's a little overkill.
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Post by countrychick on Nov 7, 2005 21:26:14 GMT -5
I agree, I don't hear this song anymore on any stations these days. Even the band it self. Thats ashame cause this is a good all around universal type group to be played for almost any station.
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Post by reception on Dec 11, 2005 15:24:50 GMT -5
On the US Music Survey this week Mark Wallengren mentioned it was the biggest hit of 1988 (the AC chart).
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Post by Hervard on Dec 11, 2005 16:29:42 GMT -5
On the US Music Survey this week Mark Wallengren mentioned it was the biggest hit of 1988 (the AC chart). That's not true. The number one AC song of 1988 was "I'll Always Love You" by Taylor Dayne. Are you sure Mark didn't say it was number one this week in 1988?
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Post by reception on Dec 12, 2005 13:19:38 GMT -5
On the US Music Survey this week Mark Wallengren mentioned it was the biggest hit of 1988 (the AC chart). That's not true. The number one AC song of 1988 was "I'll Always Love You" by Taylor Dayne. Are you sure Mark didn't say it was number one this week in 1988? I found that strange myself. Chicago was the featured artist spotlight this week.
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Post by stevie nice on Dec 12, 2005 13:22:36 GMT -5
I could never have an ex call me up, say she found someone new, and tell her, "I'm happy for you baby." that would just never, never, never, ever, ever happen.
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Post by Chato on Dec 12, 2005 15:20:33 GMT -5
I can't believe that a song like this could top the chart as late as 1988 . To me Chicago seems like a band that would have faded away in the mid-80s. I like this , though .
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Post by BillboardBoy on Jun 15, 2007 14:32:59 GMT -5
Not bad.
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Post by WotUNeed on Jun 15, 2007 18:49:48 GMT -5
Great song, one of my favorites from Chicago
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Post by shocker on Jun 15, 2007 21:22:57 GMT -5
I can't believe that a song like this could top the chart as late as 1988 . To me Chicago seems like a band that would have faded away in the mid-80s. I like this , though . Chicago was a very popular band in the '70s, and well into the late '80s. They really fizzled out by the early '90s when so-called pop music was going through some enormous changes. By that time, they were pretty much confined to the AC chart. They even had a #1 AC hit in 1997 called "Here in My Heart", which had little impact at CHR.
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Post by unicorns on Jun 24, 2007 13:17:09 GMT -5
One of my favorites from them.
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Post by Glove Slap on Dec 15, 2008 9:41:51 GMT -5
This is a major guilty pleasure for me.
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Post by esoteric76 on Dec 22, 2008 13:25:52 GMT -5
This is one of Diane Warren's finest ballads. Chicago does it amazing justice.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jun 19, 2011 11:02:24 GMT -5
One of my most hated songs of the 80s...
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Post by ๐ฏ๐ฒ dollybaby ๐ฏ๐ฒ on Jun 11, 2019 19:50:36 GMT -5
Great song, but I much prefer their other hits over this. Doesn't quite hit the same as their earlier ones.
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Post by leonagwen on Jul 31, 2019 0:53:20 GMT -5
Year end #1 hit
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Post by jenglisbe on Aug 10, 2019 21:55:38 GMT -5
On its own merits, not really a great song, but as 80s nostalgia I love it.
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Aug 11, 2019 7:40:44 GMT -5
I've never liked it. It never hit my personal chart back in 1988/1989.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2024 21:48:36 GMT -5
I'm a complete sucker for Diane Warren cheese like this, though it could've been better with another band (Aerosmith comes to mind). Also, this is a perfect opportunity to use one of my favorite gifs: ![Bo Burnham Pandering on Make a GIF](https://i.makeagif.com/media/5-04-2017/LwhfjL.gif)
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Post by ๐ฏ๐ฒ dollybaby ๐ฏ๐ฒ on Aug 21, 2024 23:16:26 GMT -5
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